Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

rebird 1.3.9006

• Added ebirdtaxonomyversion() which retrieves data on available taxonomy versions. The version is added as an attribute to rebird::tax (#131).
• Added ebirdchecklist(), which lets you view individual checklists (thanks @RichardLitt and @Rafnuss, #108).
• Made ebirdregioncheck(), ebirdhotspot(), ebirdloc() defunct.
• API tests now use vcr, which saves “cassettes” of the tests which can be played in CI when running tests during CI, instead of storing an API key and having to run tests remotely with every PR (thanks @slager).
• Updated rebird’s internal taxonomy after 2023 taxonomic update.

rebird 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2021-09-20

• Updated rebird’s internal taxonomy after 2021 taxonomic update.
• Fix tests.

rebird 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2021-01-27

• Added ebirdsubregionlist() which lists sub-regions within a specified region (thanks @dbradnum, #90).
• Disabled ebirdfreq() (now throws an informative error) as the frequency data request can’t be done through the website anymore without logging in first. This request might be added to the eBird API in the near future (#88).
• Added ebirdhotspotlist() which provides a list of hotspots in a region or nearby coordinates (#87).
• Added ebirdregionspecies() which provides a list of species codes seen in a location (thanks @dbradnum, #86).
• Added ebirdchecklistfeed() which provides a list of checklists submitted on a given date at a region or hotspot (thanks @mfoos, #79).

rebird 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2019-10-24

• Updated internal taxonomy to reflect changes in the 2019 Taxonomy Update (#76).
• Updated ebirdregioninfo() to also provide information of hotspots (thanks @gbabineau, #72).
• Added ebirdhistorical() which provides historic observations on a date at a region or hotspot (thanks @gbabineau, #74).
• Fixed broken API links in README (thanks @mfoos, #75).

rebird 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2018-09-27

This version switches all functions over the the new eBird API, given that the one previously used by rebird will be retired on October 1st. As such, many of the functions in rebird have changed, and the previous versions of the package will not work correctly.

Breaking changes

• The biggest change in the new API is that most queries (with the exception of ebirdtaxonomy()) require users to provide an API key, which is linked to your eBird user account. See the README.md or the package vignette for more info on how to set up a key. Alternatively, the key can be provided as an argument in all functions.
• The new API requests, and thus rebird functions, now use species codes rather than scientific names for species-specific requests.

Major changes

• New species_code() function that converts from scientific name to species code and can be called within other functions.
• New ebirdregioninfo() function that provides detailed information on a given eBird region .

Minor changes

• ebirdregion() now uses loc as its first argument instead of region as it allows for both regions and hotspots to be specified.

Deprecated functions

• Given the changes to the eBird API, the functions ebirdloc(), ebirdhotspot(), and ebirdregioncheck() have been deprecated and will be removed in future releases. These functions still work in the updated API, but might cease to do so in the near future. ebirdregion() has the same functionality as the first two functions, while ebirdregioninfo() provides a more informative interface than ebirdregioncheck().

rebird 0.5.0

CRAN release: 2018-07-09

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES

• Now all API queries use https, which is needed to avoid double encoding urls (see #62).
• Added information about auk, an R package that helps extracting and processing the whole eBird dataset (#60).
• Updated package documentation (#61).

rebird 0.4.0

CRAN release: 2017-04-26

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES

• Fix for ebirdfreq which stopped working due to changes on the eBird website (#52).
• Replaced deprecated dplyr::rbind_all function with dplyr::bind_rows (#43).

rebird 0.3.0

CRAN release: 2016-03-23

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND BUG FIXES

• Fix for httr::content after changes in httr v1.0.0 (#38).

rebird 0.2

CRAN release: 2015-07-09

NEW FEATURES

• Added two new functions ebirdfreq and ebirdregioncheck, which provide historical frequency of observation data and check whether a region is valid under eBird, respectively.

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Passed along curl options to httr functions
• Replaced RJSONIO with jsonlite
• Replaced plyr with dplyr